This original contributed book will become an essential text for those teaching Ethnography, Research Methods (qualitative emphasis), applied sociology, and related subjects across Canada. Chapters in the first section of this volume consider the merits of qualitative research, profile interviewing strategies, and discuss the relationship to respondents as well as writing about social life. The second main component of this book contains three key sections: constructing perspectives, constructing identities, as well as doing and relating. This section features fascinating and often harrowing case studies. "Symbolic interactionism has gotten a bum rap," emphasize General Editors Dorothy Pawluch, William Shaffir, and Charlene E. Miall. "In truth, any question about society, big or small, is ultimately about people interacting with each other. Whether the issue is changing gender relationships, corporate deeds and misdeeds, class structures or the school performance of children from cultural minorities, it all comes down to one thing: people doing things together." The Table of Contents includes an Introduction and: Part (I) Approaching the Study of Everyday Life; Part (II ) Doing Ethnography; Part (IIA) Considering the Merits of Qualitative Research; Part (IIB) Interviewing Strategies; Part (IIC) Relating to Respondents; Part (IID) Writing About Social Life; Part (III) Ethnography in Process: Case Studies Of Everyday Life; Part (IIIA) Constructing Perspectives; Part (IIIB) Constructing Identities; and Part (IIIC) Doing and Relating. [This guide is produced by Canadian Scholars' Press.]